FAMILY REUNION

Grey River Argus, 5 December 1938, Page 5

FAMILY REUNION

MELBOURNE STREET CORNER. N.Z. POLICE OFFICERS. MELBOURNE, Novemebr 23. Five brothers, four of whom had associations with the polite _ force either in New Zealand or in Victoria, held a brief reunion on a Melbourne street corner a few days ago. It was the first time in 35 years that all had been together. The reunion was prompted by visit of Senior-Sergeant DayiS Calwell, of Auckland, who, with his wife, has been spending his leave in Australia The brothers aiyranged to meet at St. Paul’s Cathedral corner. When he arrived there, Mr Davis. Calwell was unable to recognise his youngest brother, Archibald, who is a senior constable at South Melbourne. ..These brothers had not met since 1915, when Archibald was 17. The other brothers present were' Allan, a senior constable attached to the traffic control branch *at Melbourne; Charles, formerly a police constable in New Zealand and now a warder in Melbourne; and Henry, the only non-police brother, who is a Melbourne osteopath. : . ■ A sixth brother is Mr William Calwell, who is in charge of the police' station at Otaki, New Zealand. He had hoped t 0 attend the retinion, but was unable to arrange to take his leave accordingly. A seventh brother, Robert, was killed in the Great War. i The reunion had to be brief for several of the brothers had to rethrn to . work and Mr Davis Calwell boarded the train for Sydney on his retUrh to New Zealand a few hours later.: